Powerhouse Voices Shake the Foundation in BoHo’s NEXT TO NORMAL
Colette Todd and Gilbert Domally in BoHo Theatre’s production of NEXT TO NORMAL (Amy Boyle) Review: NEXT TO NORMAL at BoHo Theatre By Hilary Holbrook Since it first appeared on Broadway in 2008, I have been a huge fan of this show. NEXT TO NORMAL examines the issues of grief,...
KINKY BOOTS Will “Raise You Up” With Its Uplifting, Entertaining Story
Kick up your heels—the 2013 Tony Award-winning musical KINKY BOOTS is back in Chicago for the first time since its pre-Broadway world premiere!
A-List Cast Delivers in THE GOOD PERSON OF SZECHWAN
Bertolt Brecht’s tale of doomed do-gooder Shen Te in THE GOOD PERSON OF SZECHWAN is as timeless as it is poignant.
LEARNING CURVE Is Satisfyingly Chicago
For someone over 10 years out of high school, Albany Park’s Theatre Project’s hit remarkably close to home.
BYHALIA, MISSISSIPPI – Beauty Can be Found in the Unlikeliest of Places
This play shows how wonderfully messy people are. We make mistakes, snap judgements, and have so much more to learn, but, when we find what matters, we’d better fight like hell to keep it in our lives.
The World of AVATAR Live with Cirque du Soleil
At one point we watched a guy center stage throw what I could swear were Nerf foam boomerangs bought from Toys R Us for 5 minutes. He only caught half of them.
NEWSIES—Seize the Day, but keep it Truthful
Part of the reason the movie was so successful was that you saw the gritty (albeit the Disney version of “gritty”), hard-knock-life existence for the newsboys, who had the kind of “devil-may-care” attitude that only comes from those who have nothing to lose.
LuPone. Ebersole. WAR PAINT.
WAR PAINT is a master class in acting taught by Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole. It’s also damn good reminder that women can not only carry a show, but they can slather it in face cream and wrap it up in a pretty pink bow, all while bringing down the house just for walking on stage.
Great Acting Serves Disjointed Vignettes in WASTWATER
Sometimes the rain stops just as you are about to see a play in which all three scenes mention the rain just stopping and the play is called WASTWATER and it’s set in England where very often it rains for a long time …
Despite Flaws, TOMORROW MORNING is Sweet, Memorable and Refreshingly Uncynical
Laurence Mark Wythe’s TOMORROW MORNING does a lot of things right. In the vein of Jason Robert Brown’s THE LAST FIVE YEARS, TOMORROW MORNING aims for intimate, character-driven and contemporary. It focuses on two couples—one, the night before their wedding and the other, the night before their divorce.